I THINK there should be a topic forum to discuss American television westerns.A slew have been released on dvd and are ripe for discussion:GUNSMOKELAWMANRIFLEMANHAVE GUN, WILL TRAVELWANTED;DEAD OR ALIVE....

I THINK there should be a topic forum to discuss American television westerns.A slew have been released on dvd and are ripe for discussion:GUNSMOKELAWMANRIFLEMANHAVE GUN, WILL TRAVELWANTED;DEAD OR ALIVE....

what say yo'all?Bruce Marshall

I like 'em too. We can start something in Off Topic, what say you?

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"When you feel that rope tighten on your neck you can feel the devil bite your ass"!

Lucas actually kills quite a few people in the Rifleman series. I saw one the other day where an Army officer wanted revenge because Lucas had shot his on in a fair fight. This officer kept swatting himself with his riding crop as he got madder.....

I saw a few minutes of an early Bonanza the other day, remarked to Mrs. Cusser who completely different Bonanza was from a spaghetti western. Couldn't those Cartwrights afford any different clothes? At least those clothes were always sparkling clean, and if "the boys" ever liked a gal, she was for sure dead by the end of the hour, the Bonanza curse. But at least anyone's paralysis, blindness, amnesia would also get miraculously cured by the end of the hour !

Google tells me that in 4.5 years of the Rifleman series that Lucas McCain killed 115 to 120 men, with 246 total killings on the show. No wonder Mark turned out so weird, his dad was a killing machine ! There are even sites where the number of killings in each episode is detailed.